Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
I talk to myself all the time - it's something my children have observed in the car.
Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.
Just because you're living in blissful oblivion doesn't mean you're not responsible.
Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!
People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.
I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.
I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.
Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.
It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.
The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that
'You Can Count On Me' took 20 days to shoot, and we had 50 days to shoot 'Margaret.'
Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.
I'm always hyperaware of the way in which working people are portrayed on the stage.
Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
Television is the menace that everyone loves to hate but can't seem to live without.
The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.
I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]
I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.
I'm finding that I'm working with more and more Latino artists, and that's exciting.
Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.
War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.